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...Cambridge Greene meets the two men who most influence him: Coppinger, Puritan conspirator, rebel and mystic; and Sidley, wealthy, adventure-loving rake...
...PURITAN IN BABYLON: The Story of Calvin Coolidge-William Allen White-Macmillan...
...year-old William Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post-War U. S., Coolidge...
Winthrop finally kicked, and the Deacons began filling the air with footballs, attempting to score before the half. Roy Moore snatched a 30-yard heave from McClure, but then came another ghastly sequence of dropped passes. Jack Carpenter, Puritan half, intercepted a third down toss...
Mention must be made of the superb line-backing of Winthrop's Joe Peden, whose jarring knee-high tackles were a strong point in the Puritan defense throughout the game...